Strong's #7489: ra`a` (pronounced raw-ah')
a primitive root; properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally):--afflict, associate selves (by mistake for 7462), break (down, in pieces), + displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for 7462), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, X indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
râ‛a‛
1) to be bad, be evil
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be displeasing
1a2) to be sad
1a3) to be injurious, be evil
1a4) to be wicked, be evil (ethically)
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to do an injury or hurt
1b2) to do evil or wickedly
1b3) mischief (participle)
2) to break, shatter
2a) (Qal)
2a1) to break
2a2) broken (participle)
2a3) to be broken
2b) (Hithpolel) to be broken, be broken in pieces, be broken asunder
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2191, 2192
Usage:
This word is used 98 times:
Genesis 19:7: "And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly."
Genesis 19:9: "to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore"
Genesis 21:11: "And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son."
Genesis 21:12: "unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of"
Genesis 31:7: "but God suffered him not to hurt"
Genesis 38:10: "And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also."
Genesis 43:6: "And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?"
Genesis 44:5: "my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing."
Genesis 48:17: "upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand,"
Exodus 5:22: "and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it"
Exodus 5:23: "to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither"
Leviticus 5:4: "swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever"
Numbers 11:11: "unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found"
Numbers 16:15: "taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one"
Numbers 20:15: "a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:"
Numbers 22:34: "against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again."
Deuteronomy 15:9: "of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him naught;"
Deuteronomy 15:10: "Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for"
Deuteronomy 26:6: "And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:"
Deuteronomy 28:54: "among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant"
Deuteronomy 28:56: "for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom,"
Joshua 24:15: "And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day"
Joshua 24:20: "strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good."
Judges 19:23: "them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this"
Ruth 1:21: "seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted"
1 Samuel 1:8: "thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten"
1 Samuel 12:25: "But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king."
1 Samuel 12:25: "But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king."
1 Samuel 25:34: "liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted"
1 Samuel 26:21: "for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious"
2 Samuel 19:7: "tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all"
1 Kings 14:9: "But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone"
1 Kings 16:25: "evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before"
1 Kings 17:20: "O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom"
2 Kings 21:11: "of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that"
1 Chronicles 16:22: "Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no"
1 Chronicles 21:17: "it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what"
1 Chronicles 21:17: "it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what"
Nehemiah 2:3: "why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers'"
Nehemiah 2:10: "the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come"
Nehemiah 13:8: " And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah"
Job 8:20: "a perfect man, neither will he help the evildoers:"
Job 20:26: "not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle."
Job 34:24: " He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead."
Psalms 2:9: " Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
Psalms 15:4: "them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not."
Psalms 22:16: "dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet."
Psalms 26:5: "I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit with the wicked."
Psalms 27:2: " When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh,"
Psalms 37:1: "A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity."
